RESIDENCY ANNOUNCEMENT: CONSTELLATIONS X DEVERON PROJECTS
September 2024
Working in partnership with UP Projects and Deveron Projects, the Constellations ° Cohort 2023 will be taking part in a paid week-long group residency in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. The residency will be an opportunity for the cohort to extend the collaborative work and peer to peer learning undertaken during the Constellations programme.
The residency will delve further into the questions, challenges and learnings that have been uncovered over the past months and connect with this through the unique context and organisational practice at Deveron Projects. Through a programme of walks, workshops, meetings and events, the cohort will explore the conditions that both impact the work we do as creative practitioners, and the conditions that we can create, through the process of making artworks collaboratively with communities. From self-actualising communities to thinking like forests, disrupting systems of exchange to care and maintenance, each day of the residency will question what is the role of creative practitioners and artworks in creating social justice and how do we do this work well?
Image: Fionn Duffy on research trip to Cabrach, part of the Gathering Table by Kawther Luay (2023-4). Courtesy of Deveron Projects.
Constellations ° Cohort 2023 is a group of ten early to mid-career practitioners from across the UK who took part in Constellations 2023, a nine-month development programme for artists, curators, producers, and practitioners interested in the expanded field of public art, curated in partnership with UP projects. The programme explored urgent lines of enquiry and best practice in relation to the future of public practice, including questions around the potential of art to help communities reimagine new futures, principles underpinning alternative economies, and notions of care.
The Constellations ° Cohort 2023 were Seyi Adelekun, Ian Giles, Holly Graham, Faye Hamblett-Jones, Benjamin Malcolmson, James McColl, Laura Onions, Cherelle Sappleton, Giulia Shah and Becky Warnock. You can read more about their individual practice here.
Deveron Projects is a socially-engaged arts organisation, based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, since 1995. Connecting artists, communities and places through the process of making art, their projects create relationships between people and across differences, connect Huntly with the wider world, including global justice movements, and contribute to alternative, sustainable and inclusive futures for the town.